The real goal is to win playoff games. History and pride aside, the win loss result of this game probably has very little impact on the Bills ability to win playoff games. To the extent the Bills have developed the perfect game plan to beat the Patriots, they may very well save that to use in the playoffs in the event we play them. I am expecting a fairly generic game, without a lot of blitzing on the defensive side and the standard daboll plan of alternating between pass, pass, run and run, run, throw a bomb game plan.
As much as I want to win this game, I won't be that upset if we don't.